CVE-2025-22869 (GCVE-0-2025-22869)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 03:07 – Updated: 2025-04-11 22:03
VLAI
Title
Potential denial of service in golang.org/x/crypto
Summary
SSH servers which implement file transfer protocols are vulnerable to a denial of service attack from clients which complete the key exchange slowly, or not at all, causing pending content to be read into memory, but never transmitted.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
golang.org/x/crypto golang.org/x/crypto/ssh Affected: 0 , < 0.35.0 (semver)
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Credits
Yuichi Watanabe
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